How to Improve Patient Care through Continuing medical education Programs?

1. How to Improve Patient Care through Continuing medical education Programs? Continuing medical education is a continuous learning that begins with admission to medical school and ends with the withdrawal from active exercise. Its objective is to prepare medical students, resident physicians and practicing physicians, to apply the latest scientific discoveries in the prevention and treatment of diseases that affect human beings, and in the alleviation of currently incurable diseases. Medical training also instils in physician’s ethical standards of thought and behavior that emphasize service to others rather than personal gain. All doctors, whatever their practice, are members of a profession. As members of the medical profession, all physicians must accept the responsibility of maintaining not only high personal levels of medical training, but also maintaining high levels of medical training for the profession. Why is Continuing medical education is important for patient safety? 1.The World Health Organization for six years has disseminated recommendations for the curricula of faculties and medical schools to facilitate students' acquisition of competencies in the field of patient safety. In order to achieve an effective change in

2. health organizations in terms of the culture of safety, the education of health professionals in all their stages of education is necessary. 2.Continuing Medical Educationprovides health professionals with the opportunity to learn about new developments and procedures, favours the exploration of various areas with the deficiency incompetency’s and provides powerful intervention tools for improving skills that require more training. 3.But one of the biggest challenges is not to stay up to date with the latest procedures, or the latest generation equipment, but, rather, to provide safer care in complex environments. The training of health professionals requires conceptual mastery of all aspects related to patient safety such as quality of care, care management, patient safety and use of care indicators. 4.It is necessary to promote education in patient safety, its principles, tools, methodologies and approaches that lead to future generations of health professionals trained for the purpose of exercising patient-centered care. Health care students, as future doctors and leaders in clinical care, must also be prepared to exercise safe care. Although curricular programs are constantly changing in order to house the latest discoveries and new knowledge, knowledge of patient safety is different from other knowledge because it applies to all areas of professional practice. Continuing Medical Education has presented an important development worldwide, this has become a tool through which the acquisition of clinical skills is favoured prior to real contact with the patient and promotes safety for the patient, by performing skills to reduce the possibility of errors or complications in carrying out procedures.